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Originally Posted by Ohio
No apology needed. You just got me going, reminiscing about the endless hours I sat on those gold chairs.
IIRC, the original purchase of those chairs coincided with the construction of the Ball Road facility in Anaheim. The hall was readied for the first Revelations training in August 1976.
Perhaps others were familiar with the purchase details.
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Well, at the very least it separates them in my mind from the Seattle World's Fair, 1962. Perhaps further details are irrelevant, besides noting that Lee was trafficking in manufactured goods in the U.S. over a span of at least 14 years.
To which one might well reply, "What is the crime in buying and selling manufactured goods?" and I would say, Look at the way goods were sold. Lee calls Titus Chu and says, "You just bought 1,000 chairs." And so on down the line. Nice, huh? Amway would love to have such a marketing arrangement.
On a related note, in my former locality, in the back room of the meeting hall, there were stacks and stacks of cardboard boxes full of what they called "Rainbow booklets". Every book of the Bible got its own color. Ephesians was pink, Colossians was yellow, Galatians was green, etc. Hundreds, probably thousands, of pastel-colored booklets just sitting there, piled up in cardboard boxes and gathering dust. I remember asking what that was about and being told that one day they got a phone call from Anaheim: "You just bought 10,000 Rainbow Booklets".
At that time I was a rank newbie, and I remember thinking how the "saints" let down the "ministry" by not getting out there to sell, sell, sell! Gradually, I realized how dispiriting it was to have these amateurish, marketing "moves from the Lord" continually sweeping through town, each at the latest whim/inspiration of the 'oracle'.
When you think about it, Lee
did change over time. In 1962 he didn't have a captive U.S. market. By 1976 he did.